Is the only book to focus on the interaction between the Japanese philosophical tradition and Phenomenology
Offers original insights into currently debated philosophical issues
Brings together a group of top experts on phenomenological and Japanese philosophy

Autorentext

Shigeru Taguchi (Ph.D., Bergische Universität Wuppertal) is Professor of Philosophy at Hokkaido University, Japan. He is author of Das Problem des 'Ur-Ich' bei Edmund Husserl (Springer, 2006) and co-editor of Perception, Affectivity, and Volition in Husserl's Phenomenology (Springer, 2017). His main research topics are Husserlian phenomenology and modern Japanese philosophy. He is also engaged in interdisciplinary studies on consciousness and cognition. He is a member of the Editorial or Advisory Board of journals and book series including Contributions to Phenomenology, Journal of Japanese Philosophy, and Journal of World Philosophies .

Andrea Altobrando (Ph.D., Turin University and Bergische Universität Wuppertal [2008], Padua University [2012]) is Professor of Western Philosophy at China University of Political Science and Law, China. His main research topics are Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Culture, and Epistemology. He is Executive Editor of Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction: On the originality and the fruitfulness of the encounter between phenomenology and Japanese philosophy (ALTOBRANDO and TAGUCHI).- Part I Nishida and the Encounter with Phenomenology in Japan.- Chapter 2. Nishida's Immanent Philosophy of Consciousness as Nothingness (ITABASHI) .- Chapter 3. On the Negation-based Structure of Acting-Self-awareness: The Development of Nishida's Phenomenological Thought (TANGI).- Chapter 4. Nishida Kitar and Phenomenology (CHEUNG).- Part 2. Japanese Philosophy and Phenomenology of Self-awareness.- Chapter 5. Nishida and the Phenomenology of Self-Awareness (MARALDO).- Chapter 6. Heidegger and Nishida's Transformations of Transcendental Reflection (ISHIHARA).- Part 3. Japanese Philosophy and Phenomenology of Alterity.- Chapter 7. Consciousness Without Boundaries? The Riddle of Alterity in Husserl and Nishida (TAGUCHI).- Chapter 8. Phenomenology touching its limits. Tanabe and Lévinas in 1934 (SUGIMURA).- Part 4. Japanese Ethics and Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity.- Chapter 9. Tomoo Otaka's Conception of Sovereignty as Nomos: A Phenomenological Interpretation (YAEGASHI and UEMURA).- Chapter 10. Ethics Can Only Be Hermeneutic and Not Phenomenological: A Critical Assessment of Watsuji Tetsur's Thesis (IKEDA).- Chapter 11. Watsuji's Phenomenology of Aidagara: An Interpretation and Application to Psychopathology (KRUEGER).- Part 5. Japanese Philosophy and the Development of New Phenomenological Perspectives.- Chapter 12. Self-Awareness as Transcendental Mediationality (NITTA).- Chapter 13. The Logic of Mediation: Absolute mediation and Logic of Species in Tanabe's Philosophy (MURAI).- Chapter 14. The Spiritual Oriental Philosophy of Toshihiko Izutsu. Toward a Structuralist Phenomenology (NAGAI).- Chapter 15. Recurrence and the Great Death: A Transcontinental Phenomenology (SCHROEDER).